The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Russell
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Agee
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biging, Wensel
A method of photographing and digitizing radial growth on section rounds from destructively sampled trees for stem analysis was developed and compared in accuracy against hand measurements on those same rounds. Results indicated a high degree of correlation between photographic…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gruell
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
Large suppression programs have been organized in an effort to avoid the potentially large damages from wildfires. To help determine the efficient sizes and usage of these programs, simulation models have been developed. Recent widespread implementation of one such model --…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chung
In Canada about 1.3 million hectares (M ha) of forests are destroyed by wildfires each year, and about 63% of all these fires are man-caused. During the 1980 and 1981 fire seasons, however, about 10 M ha were damaged; estimated annual emissions from forest fires were 224 million…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Agee, Huff
An increment borer is a precision instrument specially designed to extract a thin cylinder of wood from a tree, shrub, log or pole. It is available in a variety of sizes ranging in length from 4 inches to 40 inches. Although the increment borer is essentially a very simple…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schneider, Gudgel-Holmes, Dalle-Molle
The overall goal of this project is to provide park managers with information useful in understanding the land uses of the north additions. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) (Public Law 96-487, December 2, 1980) added additions to the former Mount…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Graber, Agee, van Wagtendonk
An evolving understanding of ecological processes, together with ambiguities in National Park Service policy, have led to multiple interpretations of the role of management in our large natural area National Parks. National Park Service management policies must be dynamic and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
To sum up, policy, strategy, personnel and equipment employed to suppress forest and range fires has changed dramatically over the past 70-year history of the Forest Service. Most of this change has come during the past 25 years, with the establishment of research laboratories…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons, Graber, Agee, van Wagtendonk
An evolving understanding of ecological processes, together with ambiguities in National Park Service policy, have led to multiple interpretations of the role of management in our large natural area National Parks. National Park Service management policies must be dynamic and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vanderlinden
From the introduction: 'The transition in philosophy from wildfire control to wildfire management, from total protection of resources from fire to integration of fire as a tool to accomplish land and resource management objectives, has only recently taken place. Fire is…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephenson
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker
Disturbance shapes the characteristics of individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. As evidence mounts that disturbance influences virtually all vegetation types and levels of ecological organization, its role as a selective agent and ecosystem process has gained…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foster, King
(1) The Betula papyrifera (paper birch) forest of the wilderness of south-eastern Labrador is described. (2) B. papyrifera forests range in size from less than 1 ha to several km2, display sharp borders with the adjoining conifer forests and are restricted to steep slopes that…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker
The influence of climate on the population dynamics of trees must be inferred from indirect sources of information because the long lifespans of trees preclude direct observation of population growth and decline. Important insights about these processes come from 1) observations…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Auclair
Postfire recovery of biomass and soil organic pools was measured in a sequence of 10 subarctic lichen woodlands aged from 0 to 140 years. Less than one-tenth of total live biomass combusted at the time of burning. Aboveground biomass combustion of species ranged from nil to over…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES